More Habbakuk in Romans

In Habbakuk 2-3 we find this:

Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake;
to a silent stone, Arise!
Can this teach?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
and there is no breath at all in it.
But the LORD is in his holy temple;
let all the earth keep silence before him.”

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.

“O Lord, I have heard the report of you,
and your work, O LORD, do I fear.
In the midst of the years revive it;
in the midst of the years make it known;
in wrath remember mercy….”

I find it hard to believe that Paul didn’t think Habbakuk was relevant along with Isaiah 53.1 when he wrote in Romans 10,

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what our report?” So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Paul has already established that every mouth is stopped (Romans 3.19). The rest of Romans 10 mentions the mouth three times as the means of salvation.

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